Conference on Ocalan starts in the House of Lords

The House of Lords is hosting a conference with the theme of solidarity with the Kurdish people and freedom for Ocalan.

The organizers said the Turkish state worked intensely to stop the conference in the House of Lords titled, “Solving the Crisis in the Middle East: Abdullah Ocalan’s Ideology”.

The conference hosted by Labour Party’s Lord Maurice Glasman was organized with support from trade unions with millions of members, the Freedom for Ocalan campaign and the Kurdish Popular Assembly Britain.

The conference will continue all day today. Kurdish Popular Assembly Britain Co-chairs Ercan Akbal and Besime Basar spoke before the conference, which has garnered great interest, and said it will be “a historic conference”. The Co-chairs called on progressive forces and institutions to take a role in building a new social life around Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ideas.